Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi

Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi (16 November 1894-27 July 1972) was an Austrian diplomat.

Biography
Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi was born in Tokyo, Japan to an Austrian count and a Japanese mother. He was educated in Vienna, which was for long his home, and he wrote the book Paneuropa in 1923, urging the formation of a European organization to fill the void left by European anarchy. In 1924, he funded a secretariat in Vienna which organized a Pan-European Congress in October 1926. In a second congress in Berlin 1930, he urged the formation of a United States of Europe to overcome the political instability of interwar Europe. In 1938, he emigrated to Switzerland and then to the United States. In 1946, he helped to organize the Congress of the Hague, which led to the formation of the Council of Europe. A consistent advocate of closer European integration, he was honorary Secretary of the European Movement from 1952 to 1965. He died in Schruns, Austria in 1972.